The Wilmingtonian., 1887-05-14
BILL NYE coRREcTs AN ERROR.
How Correspondent Located Him In
the Wrong Mansion.

How Correspondent Located Him In
the Wrong Mansion.
III you will excuse me for Introducing a
purely personal matter, | would like 10
make an explanation at this time which CON
Germs M" of course, more than any one else,
and yet it ought to be made in the interests
OF general justice also. | refer to a recent
article published in western paper and
handsomely illustrated in which, among
others, find picture Of my residence
The description which accompanies the cut,
among other things, goes on to state as fol-
lows: "Ihe structure is elaborate, massive
and beautiful. 1t consists of three stories,
basement and attic, and covers n large area
on the ground. II contains an elevator, cleo
trio bells, steam heating arrangements, baths,
hot and cold, in every room, electric lights,
laundry, fire escapes, etc. The grounds con
sist of at least five acres, overlooking the
river for several miles up aud down, with
me boating and private fish pond of two
acres In extent, containing every known
variety of game fish. The grounds are finely
iald out in handsome drives and walks, and
when finished the establishment will lie one
of the most complete and beautiful in the
northwest"
No one realizes more fully than the great
power of the press for good or evil Rightly
used the newspaper can make or unnake
men, and wrongly used it can he even more
sinister. might say, knowing this as do,
want to be placed right before the people.
The above is not n correct description of my
house, for several reasons. In the first place,
1t Is larger and more robust in appearance,
and in the second place it has not the same
tout ensemble as my residence. Ny house is
less obtrusive and less arrogant in its de
fatnn f1n,. H. 4 ..
elevator in it.
My house is not the kind that seems to
crave mn elevator. An elevator in my house
would lose money. There is no popular
clalnor for one, and If l were to put one in
would have to abolish the dining room. II
would also interfere with the parlor.
have learned recently that the correspond
ent who came here to write up this matter
visited the town while was in the south and
MS lie could not find me he was at the mercy
oil strangers. young man who lives here
and who is just in the heyday of lie gleefully
consented TO Show the correspondent my new
residence not vet completed So they went
over and examined the new Oliver Wendell
Holmes hospital, which will be completed in
June, and which is of course a handsome
structure, but quiet different from my house
in many particulars.
For instance, my residence is of a different
school of architecture, being rather on the
Scandinavian order, while the foregoing has
tendency toward the Ironc. The hospital
belongs to n very recent school. us may say,
while my residence in its architectural meth
DDS and conception, goes back to tile time Of
the mound builders, a time when n Gothic
hole in the ground was considered the mag
mum honum and the scrlimptuOlls thing in
art. If the reader will go around behind the
above building and notice it carefully on the
east side, he will not discover a dried coon
skin nailed TO the rear breadths of the wood
shed. That alone ought to convince an OBJ
serving man that the house is not mine. The
coon skin regardant will always be found EN-.
blazoned on my arms, together with blue
Goddess Of Liberty and my name in green
India ink.
The front part of my house runs back to the
time Of Polypus the First, while the l. runs
back as far as the cistern
In closing let me say that am not finding
fault with any one because tho above error
has crept into the public prints, for it is really
parlonable error, after all. Neither do
wish to he considered aS striving to eliminate
my name from the columns of the press, for
no one could be more tickled than am over
a friendly notice Of my arrival in town or a
timely reference TO my courteous bearing and
youthful appearance, but | want to see tho
Oliver Wendell HOLMES hospital succeed, and
so | come out il this way over my own sig.
nature and admit that the building does not
belong to me, and that, so far as am con-
cerned, the man who files a lien on it will
simply fritter away his timc.--Bll Nyc in
New York World